Karoline Leavitt vows Trump will keep males out of girls locker rooms amid Illinois school controversy

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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt addressed the ongoing nationalist conflict implicit transgender inclusion successful girls sports and locker rooms Wednesday.

Leavitt was asked astir a concern successful Deerfield, Illinois, involving a parent who alleged past week that her girl was forced to alteration successful beforehand of a transgender pupil successful a locker room. The mother, Nicole Georgas, says she filed a ailment with the Department of Justice implicit the concern involving Deerfield Public Schools.

Leavitt did not code Georgas' concern specifically, but vowed that President Donald Trump volition tackle the contented astatine large.

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"The president has made it incredibly wide that it is the argumentation of this medication that determination are lone 2 genders, antheral and female," Leavitt said. "And we are not going to tolerate specified behaviour by men pretending to beryllium women. The president volition proceed to powerfully basal for the rights of women and girls, not conscionable successful sports and connected diversion fields, but besides backstage spaces similar locker rooms and bathrooms."

Georgas revealed the ailment during a Board of Education gathering for Deerfield Public School District 109 past week, claiming that the incidental took spot past period aft her girl refused to alteration into her azygous during carnal acquisition due to the fact that a biologic antheral pupil had been contiguous astatine the time.

"The girls privation their locker rooms and bathrooms back. They privation their privateness back. This is wherefore I’m present tonight. My 13-year-old daughter’s well-being, intelligence wellness and privateness are astatine stake," Georgas said during her code astatine the committee gathering connected Thursday.

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Meanwhile, a Democrat person has minimized the issue.  

During an Illinois General Assembly league Tuesday, Illinois Democrat authorities typical Bob Morgan suggested the girls who alleged they had been forced to alteration with a transgender pupil successful a locker country had lied astir the situation.

Morgan, who represents Deerfield, addressed the contented successful effect to it being brought up by Republican authorities typical Adam Neimerg, who brought up the allegations by Georgas.

"I'm truly arrogant of my assemblage who stood up for those who request to beryllium defended and protected, making definite we person large schools, which we bash by the way. We person incredible, unthinkable schools, unthinkable families, an unthinkable assemblage that has travel unneurotic to woody with this situation. Because it's a lie!" Morgan said. 

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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt addressed the ongoing nationalist conflict implicit transgender inclusion successful girls sports and locker rooms. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Deerfield Public Schools District 109 said that nary pupil is required to alteration successful beforehand of others successful the locker country and added that the school's policies align with authorities law. 

"District 109 is committed to providing a learning situation wherever each students and unit are respected and supported. Our policies and procedures, including pupil usage of locker rooms, align with authorities laws, the Illinois School Code, and Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) guidance. No pupil is required to alteration into a gym azygous for carnal acquisition people successful beforehand of others successful locker rooms. All students successful the mediate schools person aggregate options to alteration successful a backstage determination if they wish."

Fox News Digital's Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.

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